unitid 131496 · Washington, DC · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)
Georgetown University
Private Jesuit university in Washington, D.C.
- founded
- 1789
- enrollment 2023
- 24,038
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- georgetown.edu
- motto
- “Utraque Unum”
Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the United States, the oldest university in Washington, D.C., and the nation's first federally chartered university. wikipedia rev 1364359366 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
13%
4th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
7,569
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
10%
undergrads on Pell grants
5th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
95%
finish within 150% time
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$88,741
99th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$40,815
after aid, aided students
95th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$103,494
after entry, Title IV students
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$15,500
11th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $5,064 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k18%
- 30-48knot reported
- 48-75k15%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $78,301
- First-generation students
- 16%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $68,017
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 6.7× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law. | 684 | $163,738 | — |
| Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies. | 541 | $169,366 | — |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 401 | $175,402 | — |
| International Relations and National Security Studies. | 349 | $119,853 | — |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 304 | — | — |
| International Relations and National Security Studies. | 283 | $80,731 | $17,500 |
| Political Science and Government. | 272 | $86,431 | $16,500 |
| Social Sciences, General. | 266 | — | — |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 236 | $152,931 | $16,877 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 233 | $120,851 | — |
| Real Estate. | 205 | $149,608 | — |
| Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences. | 202 | $70,779 | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,285 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (582) · basketball player (533) · politician (405) · lawyer (304) · university teacher (191) · writer (178) · diplomat (166) · journalist (160)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Bradley Cooper
135 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Felipe VI of Spain
119 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
101 wikis · Public domain
Carl Reiner
91 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
87 wikis · Public domain
Dalia Grybauskaitė
86 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Ivanka Trump
85 wikis · Public domain
José Manuel Durão Barroso
84 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Vera Rubin
71 wikis · Attribution
J. Edgar Hoover
64 wikis · Public domain
Saad Harirị
62 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Iván Duque
59 wikis · Public domain
Allen Iverson
57 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Robert Gates
55 wikis · Public domain
Tiffany Trump
54 wikis · Public domain
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364359366), CC BY-SA 4.0.